part I - MONOGRAMMA-ODYSSEAS ELYTIS

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The Monogram by Odysseas Elytis I will always mournhear me?for you, alone, in Paradise. I Fate, like a switchman, will turn Elsewhere the lines of the palm Time will concede for one moment How else, since man loves and is loved The heavens will perform our insides And innocence will strike the world With the scythe of deaths blackness. II I mourn the sun and I mourn the time that comes Without us and I sing of others whove passed If this is true The bodies addressed and boats sweetly gliding ...